[SkyPilot]

More Hope and Change!

The Community Organizer is systematically destroying America, it is true.

However, our definition of who is "poor" is quite different from the definition of "poor" in most of the world. In America, our "poor" usually have cell phones (with camera option), 2 TVs, a car, a refrigerator, plenty of food, a DVD player, and a computer.

I remember reading a blog, and these "poor" people kept blogging in and screaming at everyone else about how "poor" they were. Someone asked them why they had a computer? Did they have cable TV? Did they eat out a lot?

The answer was "yes" to all of those questions.

[BenLurkin]

THIS -- -- is poverty.

[yorkie01]

My Hope is dwindling for the Wagyu steaks we were promised.

[cripplecreek]

[netmilsmom]

Poor with Section 8 housing, Title 20 childcare, food stamps, Obamaphones and WIC for all the milk, cheese and cereal they can eat, along with free breakfasts and lunches for the kiddies.

We have the richest poor people in the world.

[Thermalseeker]

No, No, NO! We declared “war” on poverty 45 years ago. There can’t possibly be any poverty now (hundreds of billions of dollars later).....especially with Obamalamadingdong and his flying monkeys at the helm.....

[Pecos]

His object is to make everyone dependent upon the government. THAT is the definition of control.

[albie]

“Congress passed a health overhaul earlier this year to extend coverage to more people”.

...oh. We’re ok then.~sarc It must be exhausting trying to come up with so many spins on so many levels on a daily basis. Now that I think of it, probably not. It comes naturally.

[Vanders9]

Exactly! 1 in 7 sounds horrific, but its all dependent on what you define as being “in poverty”. I heard of one surveying group who defined the bottom 15% of earners in any population as being “the poor”. Even more alarmingly, there were activists who used the results of the group to be shocked that the number of poor had stayed the same, year on year.

[dfwgator]

They still live better than 99.9% of all Africans.

[SMARTY]

Plagiarizing myself from elsewhere:

Just morbid curiosity, but is poverty in America still defined as a condition of living where the government pays for your education, medicine, doctor visits, emergency room visits, housing, food, etc. and that you may own cars, vcr’s, cell phones (I don’t even have one), big screen tv’s (not one of those either)...etc. ????

[penelopesire]

The Washington Compost left out that this is the highest poverty rate since 1994!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2590277/posts

[highlander_UW]

It's all part of Obama’s “equality” plan...make everyone poor...well, except the progressive elites.

[WOBBLY BOB]

don’t worry- it can get worse:

‘Sustainable’ Poverty: The Real Face of the Leftist Environmental Agenda
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2577004/posts

[BeckB]

The Census did not ask for SS number. So I am assuming many of these “ Americans “ are from south of the border. Let them go home and be supported by that country’s ‘wealthy’.

[meyer]

What is the definition of poverty?

[biggredd1]

The “poor” in America should transfer their wealth to Africa.

[Le Chien Rouge]

This is propaganda!!!!!

Everyone knows that the worst economy since Herbert Hoover – was in 2004 (John Kerry, 8/6/03)!!!

We are in the midst of the summer of recovery-—Joe Biden.

[Rashputin]

I don't know if it's due to changes in the definition of “poverty” or just my faulty memory, but those numbers look a lot like what I recall lop eared Lyndon quoting when he insisted we needed a War on Poverty back in the day. In fact, I initially thought, “man, worse than when Lyndon redefined debt as a war on poverty”.

I dunno, I'll look around, but anything Lyndon did is bound to end badly just like his folding the SS fund into the general fund. It catches up with "someone down the road". Unfortunately, we're that "someone down the road" and all those people in poverty have been brainwashed into thinking that someone owes them those TVs, DVDs, cellphones, computers, autos, and a lot of other things.

Regards

[smokingfrog]

I heard yesterday that 9% of Americans have a drug problem. Perhaps being a drug addict does not help your economic situation very much.

[lurk]

If you have shelter, a cell phone, electricity, more than one set of clothes, shoes, access to a washing machine, and more than one meal a day, you are not in poverty.

Poverty is Ethiopia, Sudan, parts of South America, and over 90% of China. That’s true poverty.